Comments on: BiggerPockets SPAM-Bombed About “Free” Seminar from Consumer Advocate Website

By: Vuk

Vuk — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 09:18:23 +0000

Harj is in the process of separating himself from the marketing team that is likely responsible for spamming your site. Currently there is a nasty legal battle ongoing in federal court. Hopefully the truth about the entire matter will come to light soon.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Fri, 25 May 2007 17:01:44 +0000

Elaine – it looks like the site is his.

By: Elaine

Elaine — Thu, 24 May 2007 07:12:21 +0000

check this site out. It may explain a little. I doubt Harj Gill even knew about this. http://www.mortgagefreeusa.com/

By: Brandon

Brandon — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:08:56 +0000

This is the latest thing among spammers. I operate a forum, and I have to purge a few of these spam emails every day. I even turned on verfication requirements upon signing up. That helped eliminate about 80% of it. But some of them are still posting. That tells me there’s actually a person clicking the verification link and then logging in to post spam. Get a friggin’ life, is what I say to these people.

Here’s a little insight I probably shouldn’t share. Whenever I get one of these posts, I trace it back to the originating site and blast them with an angry email about how low they are. Unprofessional, unproductive, but it makes me feel better.

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:37:17 +0000

Frustrating is not even the start of it! I don’t see why people who do this don’t understand that everyday people are sick of SPAM – even on forums. It is not an effective marketing technique if you want to convey trust.

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 16:05:44 +0000

That’s so frustrating. Not only is it obtrusive, but it can’t produce the results they really want. As soon as I receive things like that or have issues with a company like that, I do exactly what you just did in broadcasting it and how can it really be worth it to get this much negative publicity?

-Derek

By: Joshua Dorkin

Joshua Dorkin — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 06:23:21 +0000

Thanks for the advice. I do appreciate it.

By: SpamSlayer

SpamSlayer — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:18:39 +0000

Email addresses to LART*:

abuse [at] peer1.net (for website)
abuse [at] att.net (for 12.178.97.22 IP address)
postmaster [at] fairpoint.com (for 12.178.97.22 IP address)
abuse [at] godaddy.com (website registrar)
postmaster [at] ywave.com (for 12.178.97.22 IP address)
postmaster [at] isqsolutions.com (name servers)

Send a LART with all the evidence you’ve got to the above email addresses… it that doesn’t get action, get the ASN numbers for his website and posting IPs, then get their upstream providers, and LART there, too.

If he persists in spamming, let us know via RSS, and other measures will be taken to ensure he shuts down his website… permanently.

* LART = Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool
(Think of a large mallet applied to the spammer’s nads.)